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Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast' [91r] (181/473)
The record is made up of 1 file (235 folios). It was created in 25 Nov 1936-20 Dec 1945. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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5477
Copy of meawrandua Ho.Vl-Trf36).7e91/G., dated the
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4th August 1939, from tbe Hon’ble the Agent to the Governor
General, Resident and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan,
to the Secretary to the Government of India in the External
Affairs Department,
Subject:- Importation
slaves from
Reference jour memorandum No, F-87-H/39, dated the
11th April 1939.
2. Snquiries show that no slave trade is carried on
from the Indian-Mekran coast nor do any "slaves" or "slave
si 1 * * "! 8 * appear to have been kidnapped from any part of the
Kalat State as slavery was abolished in the State in 1926 and
does not now exist in any form. Transfrontier reports,
however, confine that there is considerable traffic in such
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slaves inside Iranian llekran where mapiy of the Baluch tribes
have been reduced to destitution by tne pressure brought
to bear upon them owing to the disarmament campai^i of the
Iranian Government. These slave girls are alleged to be
bought from their parents by slave traders and shipped from
the ports of Gwatar, Pasabandar, and Qiahbar in country
craft. But it is also not improbable that such slaves are
brought from Iran to Gwadur and from there shipped to the
Hedjaz and Riyadh. The worst offenders in this traffic
amongst the Iranian Itekrani Baluch tribes are the Bar,
Jadgals, Hots and Rinds while this has long been a common
practice with the Danadas (or freed slaves). The market
for this traffic is alleged to be beat during the "Haj*
months where there is a greater demand and the greater
number of people using the Persign Gulf routes facilitate
the smuggling of girls in at the ports.
I u l.TTER
DATE RECEIVED
17- 8 5 -- 9 - 1939
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Correspondence and minute papers concerning the slave trade in Saudi Arabia and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . The papers consist of intelligence reports, parliamentary notices, memoranda, letters, and telegrams. Matters covered by the file include:
- Concern over a lack of application of anti-slavery legislation in Saudi Arabia, especially in the east
- British threats of bombardment and withdrawal of good offices given to the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi
- Slave traffic coming from the Mekran [Makran] Coast
- A suspected slave market at Buraimi.
Principal correspondents include officials at the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , Foreign Office, Admiralty, and Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Additional correspondence, usually included as enclosures, comes from: Amir Feisal, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia; the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Agent, Sharjah; Commander-in-Chief, East Indies; Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain; British Vice Consulate, Zahidan, East Iran; British Consulate, Kerman; and Sultan Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] of Muscat.
Folio 40 is an article on the slave trade in the Gulf taken from The Times , 18 July 1942.
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- 1 file (235 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the back to the front.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 237; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast'
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- front, front-i, 2r:39v, 40v:107v, 116r:229r, 232r:236r, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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